Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development projects: Good Practice Note.
This note addresses road safety gaps to develop improved guidelines to apply the safe system approach to existing TOD projects around the world
Abstract
Based on 2018 findings of the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of deaths due to road crashes is 1.35 million deaths per year. While this number is quite high and increasing every year, the rate of road crash deaths per 100,000 of population has remained constant, at around 18 deaths, over the years. This rate of deaths is however not distributed proportionately amongst the different regions and countries. The high-income countries have recorded lowest average rate at 8.3 per 100,000. In contrast to this number, low-income countries have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates averaging at 27.5 deaths per 100,000, more than three times the average for high-income countries. This note forms a part of the engagement between the World Bank and World Resources Institute India (WRI India) to leverage existing work on ‘TOD Implementation and Resource Tools’ being developed as part of the Global Platform for Sustainable Cities (GPSC), by identifying and addressing road safety gaps to develop improved guidelines to apply the safe system approach to existing TOD projects around the world. This Good Practice Note summarizes the various road safety considerations and measures that may be undertaken.
This paper was supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, through the Global Road Safety Facility
Citation
Mehta, Prerna V.; Behera, Abhishek; Mascarehnas, Binoy; Dhindaw, Jaya; Pai, Madhav; Sodaye, Chetan; Ashar, Dhawal; Kapoor, Himanshi; Malagi, Rajeev; Ollivier, Gerald Paul; Burlacu, Florentina-Alina. Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development projects: Good Practice Note. Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group